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Ahemdabad
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Philadelphia
Jainlexicon.com website is a multimedia platform designed to explain Jain terminologies with proper pronunciation guide and pictures etc.
This is a collaborative project that will always be in a constant state of “Work in progress”. This site is a learning tool for the study of Jainism. You are not only invited to browse but also to contribute. Any user can suggest changes or add new terms to make the site more useful to students and scholars of Jainism.
Duration of time before the bondage of Karma comes to fruitation (shows…
Non-existence, Negative aspect. There are four types of Abhāva:
1. Prāg…
Because of the presence of this power present in a given substance,…
Presence of this (34th of the 47) power of the soul. Besides…
Face turned towards, disposed or inclined to, in the direction of, in…
Obstructive, detrimental, harmful
Absurd, inconsistent, inappropriate, contradictory reason, stultified reason
External possessions – ten types:
1. Agricultural land
2. Houses
1. Anashan (Fasting):
Complete abstinence from eating any food and/or drinking…
Outer self, the exterior self
Once upon a time, during the life of Lord Mahāvīra, there was…
Conscious soul, rationality, perception
Monarch of area of Bharat or Airāvat, Universal monarch, universal sovereign, One…
Flywhisk
This is a story about Bhagwān Mahāvīra when he was a monk.…
The Digambar tradition calls this festival Das Lakshana Parva and observes it…
Act of seeing, seeing or visiting idol with devotion.
Darshan also…
This karma covers the soul’s faculty of perception or vision (Perception Obscuring).…
Compassion, pity, mercy
Religion that urges (preaches) compassion towards all living beings
(Determinant Point of View):
This Naya recognizes only that word which…
Alone, sole.
Absolutistic prejudice, one sided opinion, residing in a solitary place
Solitariness, loneliness
Carefulness in collecting alms vow of an ascetic for example, the food…
The spiritual doctrine produced by Lord Mahāvīra for ascetics (Sādhus and Sādhvis)…
The last day of Paryushan (Samvatsari) and the first day of the…
Jain Concept of God
The subcontinent of India, a cradle of…
Monastic order headed by an Ācārya. Monks are often referred to as…
Smell, scent, Dirty smell,
Chief disciples of a Tirthankara. Direct disciple of Tirthankara
To attain the status of Gańipad, a Sādhu must have in-depth knowledge…
Gandharvād is a philosophical work in which there are profound discussions of…
Injury, loss, ruin, destruction
During the sixth century A.D., there lived a learned Brahmin named Haribhadra.…
Ācarya Hariśena, the author of Brihat kathā kosh, belonged to Punnata Sangha…
Joy, delight, exultation
Tirtha: It is in the town of Hastināpur in the state of…
This sutra is recited while offering obeisance to Guru Mahārāj. Since in…
Ichchhāmi khamā-samano !
Vandium, jāvanijjāe nisihiāe, matthaena vandāmi.
This sutra…
Jain pilgrimage place in Sābarkanthā district of Gujarat. Has an ancient and…
In ancient times, there lived a wealthy businessman named Dhandatta in the…
Lord of the heaven, celestial deity, chief of the Gods.
Coming after a word (but attached to it) shows importance of the…
Conventional path, worldly path, transmigration path
Temporal world
The name of the central continent (island) in Jain cosmography. It is…
Twelfth of the eighteen Pāp Karma. It means dispute or quarrel. Quarrel…
Bhabra or Bhabhra community is an ancient merchant community from Punjab region…
Traditionally, the most revered scripture for Shvetāmbars is the Kalpa-sutra, read from…
Auspicious Events in the life of Tirthankaras
Jains celebrate five major…
Jains reject root vegetables in their meals for ethical reasons. Jain life…
Attainment, attainment of favorable time, attainment of special austerities, consciousness in
…
Lowest level of knowledge.
Paryāya Jnān is the lowest form of…
Smallness, feeling of inferiority,
Attention, aim, target
Intoxication, Pride, arrogance, passion, madness
Middle, a cautionary path
Equanimity state.
To contemplate indifference to worldly obstacles and thereby get engrossed in the…
Sweet, melodious, beloved, dear, graceful, gentle.
City, town
It is the partial point of view which considers the past mode…
When the action occurs in an affluent cause – Upādān, then there…
Distress arising due to external causes.
Casual production
This Karma bondage determines the physique or the body that the soul…
People in this state of mind are kind, benevolent and forgiving. They…
Padmāsan is one of the prominent Āsana (Yogic exercise) practiced for the…
Fourteenth of the eighteen Pāp Karma. Talking behind someone’s back or spreading…
One side of the argument.
Raj
is a particle of dust and to har
is…
Protector.
Juice;
sap (in plants);
taste or inclination for a thing;
Giving up delicacies of food. Partaking of food for the purpose of…
Fifteenth of the eighteen Pāp Karma. Rati means liking, while Arati means…
(Palm Tree Pose) Tadāsan is one of the Āsanas (Yogic exercise) practiced…
Tapa or penance is the seventh of the ten virtues Digambars celebrate…
After requesting forgiveness from all living beings of the universe, the next…
(Thunderbolt Pose) Vajrāsan is one of the Āsanas (Yogic exercise) practiced for…
Respecting Ascetics Vandanā means respecting and saluting. In the absence of a…